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Wordsworth and Coleridge MSS. Edited, with Notes, by W. Hale

White. (Longmans and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This is a description of four volumes of MSS. by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Some of 'these are letters ; others are " copy " of various poems, inter- esting on account of the handwriting—Dorothy Wordsworth's often appearing –and of the corrections. The elaboration of the

Ancient Mariner " is particularly noticeable. The whole volume shows how much thought the two poets bestowed on the perfecting of their work.